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... are scattered around the park. It’s nice that they’re all labeled, because you’re always asking yourself, “What’s that one?”. There were quite a few families with children there, and lots of activities for them. This would be a great place for a picnic; I just wish we had thought of it. But there was no shortage of places to eat either.

... garden was designed by William Kent, also based on Roman gardens, notably Tivoli, from where some of the statues may have come. Unfortunately the house was later allowed to go into disrepair and suffered extensive WWII damage. English Heritage and Hounslow Council have now combined to given the public free access to the refurbished house and ...

... if you are with an organised tour- I didn't. And what about Visas? And vaccinations?

I'm afraid my chat in the STA shop and with the nurse at the doctors surgery last time I was there isn't going to be enough, unsurprisingly. Hence the massive amounts of research I am now doing. And with that I think I will sign off this post and get back to it- I can't book anything until I have decided on what I am going to do now can I?

... to see Ho Chi Minh's embalmed corpse again. Want to visit Dien Bien Phu, although apparently the 10 hour bus ride through the jungle is 'not for the faint hearted' and 'only for seasoned, hardcore travellers' according to the guidebook. But Dien Bien Phu spelled the end of Vietnam for my family, the bloody collaborators, and it's a very important place, where the French army were literally drowned in a jungle basin of Viet Cong artillery. So we can fork out for ...

Catching up on the work side of things so far this summer... I have been very fortunate with the staff here at the clinic in that I am able to do more and more things. I am regularly anesthetizing patients, scrubbing into surgeries and starting to do my own surgeries more regularly. What started as doing cat castrates has evolved into dog castrates, assisting with orthopedic and abdominal surgeries, and even doing my own cat spay (which is done ...